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Ozge -
Without even finishing my reading of your email, I knew this had to be Los
Angeles. I’ve dealt with other situations where Drywood termites are in the
major beams of a large commercial warehouse buildings in the LA area. Seems a
lot of the warehouses have a similar condition. You are welcomed to call me at
610-
348-9890, my cell phone, to discuss the situation.
Tom Parker
610-348-9890 Cellar
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> On Nov 7, 2017, at 2:20 PM, Ozge Gencay-Ustun <ogencay-us...@theautry.org>
> wrote:
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> Dear All,
>
> I have an inquiry about termites, too. We have drywood termites infested in
> the wooden beams (vertical beams and roof elements) of our new building,
> where we have moved our library and where our conservation lab and
> collections areas are (so from time to time we will have objects in those
> areas). Our other museum collections (mainly ethnographic) are in other part
> of the building where there is no wooden structure there, so I might say they
> are fairly safe, right now.
>
> In addition, one of our conservators suspects that we may also have
> subterranean termites. We had a company came in and did a treatment (I am not
> sure what). It is an old building, we had renovations done and just moved in.
> We have a small Native garden next to the building, but I didn’t see any
> subterranean termite tunnels there. I only saw the drywood termites
> (red-bodied swarmers with wings of branchy veins). I found all of them dead
> on the floor of the library’s cool storage room and one of them was alive
> caught in an insect trap.
>
> To eliminate the drywood termites what would is recommended? Would using a
> bait matrix containing an insect growth regulator, hexaflumuron work on
> drywood termites like it did for subterranean termites with the Statue of
> Liberty (1998 JAIC (37:3) article by Nan-Yao Su, Jamey D. Thomas, and Rudolf
> H. Scheffrahn)? Do you think it would work better than injecting those wooden
> beams? Any thoughts would help.
>
> Thanks,
> Özge Gençay-Üstün
> Assistant Conservator
>
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